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Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith M.P.

1893

It was mizzly and thick and the tops of the hills were covered ; but as we passed out of the harbour under the stern of a German man-of-war training-ship the officers appeared on deck and the band played God save the Queen." They answered and we did the same until the German band ended its labours and we had then passed away. [...] D. 1879.] SECOND AFGHAN WAR 11 the work was concluded we crossed over in a boat to the old lighthouse and climbed up the face of the rock by a ladder to get into it and from the gallery outside at the top we surveyed the channel and the pleasure craft crowded with umbrellas and mackintoshes: Descending I wrote my name in the lighthouse-book after the Prince of Wales and before the Duke of Edin [...] Mr Gladstone whose relation to his own party in the House of Commons since his ovethrow in 1874 had been of a fitful if not a freful kind now renounced all intention of staning again for Greenwich and undertook to carry the war against the doughtiest Tory in the north by contesting the seat of the Earl of Dalkeith eldest son of the Duke of Buccleuch. [...] But even an Ottoman perversness was not so blind as to lead the Sultan to incur the displeasure of Great Britain and the matter was compromised by the restoration of Koller's papers and the deportation of Tewfik to the island of Scios on the plea probably insincere that had he been released in Constatinople the populace would have torn him in pieces. [...] That will 'be the beginning of the disintegration of parties and of course it will becoMe the duty of the Conservatives to support the Government in any moderate measure.
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SARF Document ID
sarf.145334
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter I. 1878-1880
1-25 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter II. 1880-1881
26-54 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter III. 1882-1884
55-91 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter IV. 1880-1885
92-113 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter V. 1871-1891
114-v Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter VI. 1885
139-160 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter VII. 1886-1887
161-i Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter VIII. 1887
187-215 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter IX. 1888
216-237 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter X. 1889
238-263 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter XI. 1890
264-294 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter XII. 1891
295-318 Herbert Maxwell view
Chapter XIII. 1891
319-346 Herbert Maxwell view
Appendix
347-354 Herbert Maxwell view
Index
355-374 Herbert Maxwell view

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